Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter.

Isaiah 5:20.

Anti-Life Philosophy.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a
scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean neither more
nor less."

Through the Looking Glass.

Progressives do not use confusing language because we represent truth
and justice, unlike our backward, intolerant, Neanderthal opponents. Our
movements originated in love and frankness, and so we always "tell
it like it is."

What Is Newspeak?

One of the most ominous features of the present epoch is
undoubtedly the dethronement of truth.

Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Introduction.

The most devastating and effective weapon in the anti-life arsenal is
the cascade of meaningless, 'feel-good' words that lull the reader or
listener into inaction. After all, what can an average person do when he
or she is faced with a "word salad" of vague generalities,
biased terms, polished slogans, and half-baked half-truths?

He or she just nods, smiles blandly, and wonders what it is all
about, fearful of appearing untrendy, "reactionary,"
"politically incorrect," or just plain ignorant.

Orwell's View.

The deceptive use of language in conjunction with social
incrementalism (as described in Chapter 7) constitutes the mechanism
that creates the proper atmosphere for a Holocaust to evolve. This
principle has been recognized throughout the ages; thousands of years
ago, Plato remarked that "confusion is a tool of oppression."

George Orwell, author of the famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four,
also recognized this principle. He described the use of Newspeak by
tomorrow's totalitarian regimes. Orwell stated that "The great
enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between
one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively
to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out
ink."[1]

The Appendix to Orwell's famous book accurately outlines the ultimate
aim of Newspeak: "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a
medium of expression for the worldview ... but to make all other
modes of thought impossible."

According to Orwell, some language is "... designed to make lies
sound truthful and murder acceptable, and to give an appearance of
solidity to pure wind." He warned against "... the invasion of
one's mind by ready-made phrases." Orwell said that every such
"... ready-made phrase [slogan] anesthetizes a portion of one's
brain. Representatives of oppressive governments from Hermann Goebbels
of Nazi Germany to Chairman Mao of Communist China have recognized and
exploited the manipulative power of the written and spoken
word."[1]

Newspeak — Doublethink.

Orwell understood the deeper psychological ramifications of Newspeak.
He warned us that the use of Newspeak inevitably dulls our thinking
processes and leads to a kind of permanent split-personality called
"Doublethink," which is "... the power of holding two
contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both
of them."[1]

National public opinion polls on the subject of abortion have vividly
demonstrated the pervasiveness of Doublethink in this country. These
surveys show that a majority of Americans think that abortion is murder
and that it is immoral. However, a majority also believes that abortion
should remain legal, at least for rape, incest, and for fetal deformity!

This is tantamount to a person mounting two bumperstickers next to
each other on his car: "ABORTION IS MURDER" and "KEEP
ABORTION SAFE AND LEGAL."

Doublethink also allowed Washington State lawmakers to debate a bill
that would allow the licensing of prostitutes "only upon
satisfactory proof that the applicant is of good character."[2]

Members of the American public are woefully ignorant about the life
issues. Most people do not even know what abortion is, or how far into
pregnancy it is allowed in our country. They have no idea what
homosexuals do to each other and to innocent persons. And they do not
realize what the ultimate objectives of the euthanasiasts are. Perhaps
this is the reason that the majority of Americans believe that immoral
murder should be allowable in the United States in the form of abortion;
that homosexuals should have a 'right to privacy' so they can commit
acts that the ordinary person finds hideous; and that 'death with
dignity' is A Good Thing For Everyone. Although willful ignorance may
contribute to these strange attitudes, they are also due in large part
to the insulating effects of Doublethink.

Institutional Newspeak.

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance
with the truth of things.

These two types of Newspeak are entirely different in their origins
and objectives, as described in the following paragraphs.

The Bureaucrats Speak (Sort Of).

Institutional Newspeak is academic or bureaucratic gibberish that has
become a habit or is deliberately employed to impress or confuse people.
It is irritating and it impedes efficiency because it is confusing, but
it is generally harmless.

Desk-bound bureaucrats in the United States military and in large
corporations seem particularly susceptible to this type of 'semanticide.'
For example, every GI in the United States Army whether he knows it or
not carries a "combat emplacement evacuator" into the field.

Those persons who lose their jobs because of a recession will
probably not be comforted very much by the knowledge that
"redundancies in the human resources area have been involuntarily
leisured" and that they have been "decruited."

Double Insulation.

Newspeak is often committed in two layers. In such word surgery, the
patient usually goes into a coma, along with those who read it. An
incomprehensible babble is shortened to a cutesy acronym that is used as
a kind of 'shortspeak' which is doubly difficult for the uninitiated to
penetrate.

Actual systems planned or employed by the United States government in
the 1960s included BAMBI ("Ballistic Missile Bombardment
Interceptor"); IDIOT ("Instrumentation Digital On-Line
Transfer"); and MANIAC ("Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical
Integrator and Computer").

As another example, the current Army Joint Operations Handbook
is replete with phrases such as "By JCS charter, the Army
representative is the DCSOPS. However, the ADCSOPS(JA), who is the
DEPOPSDEP, may act for the OPSDEP on all joint matters. The use of the
term OPSDEP also includes DEPOPSDEP. OPSDEPs or DEPOPSDEPs can approve
papers for JCs."[2]

Is that perfectly clear?

Grunts in the United States Army have always used acronyms that
somehow seem to be clearer than the concepts they represent. Among these
are SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fouled Up); TARFU (Things Are Really
Fouled Up); FUBB (Fouled Up Beyond Belief); and FUBAR (Fouled Up Beyond
Recognition).

The acknowledged Armed Forces acronym champ has to be the United
States Navy, whose high-ranking officers invariably have
incomprehensible strings of initials following their names. The longest
of these is "COMSUBCOM-NELMCOMHEDSUPPACT," which stands for
Commander, Subordinate Command, United States Naval Forces, Eastern
Atlantic and Mediterranean, Commander Headquarters Support
Activities.[4]

Muddying the Waters.

Orwell's work Politics and the English Language illustrates
the type of linguistic corruption that happens when institutional
Newspeak flowers.

A passage in Ecclesiastes states; "I returned, and saw under the
sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill,
but time and chance happeneth to them all."

Orwell transformed this into the imprecise and confusing language of
bureaucratic Newspeak; "Objective consideration of contemporary
phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive
activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,
but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
taken into account."

Another favorite of wordsmiths is the admonishment to be thrifty:
"He who is sedulous in avoiding the irresponsibility of the
financially insolvent will be spared the inconvenience of that economic
deprivation customarily found in the lower socio-economic
environment."

In other (and shorter) words, "Waste not, want not."

Gibberish By Social Engineers.

The United States military and large corporations have lately yielded
their Newspeak crown to bureaucrats in various social services agencies
(although it must be said that the former fought long and gallantly to
retain their ascendancy in this strange competition).

Make no mistake regardless of its mission, the prime objective of any
government agency at any level is self-preservation. To assist
survival in the semantic jungle, functionaries duel constantly with each
other and with the world by throwing up an impenetrable barrier of
doggerel that repels all but the most determined and curious inquirer.

Instructors do not teach a kid to swim; they "transfer skills in
a program designed to meet performance objectives of increased mobility
in aquatic elements."[2] Training young artists with taxpayer money
is "cultural reforestation." The poor are now "socioeconomically
disadvantaged." The dull-witted are "maturationally
disadvantaged." Those of short stature are "vertically
disadvantaged." And lonely people are "stimulationally
impoverished." In the curious Neoliberal world of universal
victimhood, everyone is handicapped to one extent or another except
those people who happen to have been born White and male.

While striving to give almost everyone a 'legitimate' handicap, the
social engineers attempt to eradicate any and all differences between
the sexes. These "gender benders" have produced lists of
artificial pronouns and other words that attempt to completely erase any
reference whatever to the 'gender persuasion' of those being referred
to.

Curiously, none of those who attempt this semantic wizardry can
produce a legitimate reason for doing so.

Some of these 'neutered' words are shown below. This is not a joke;
these are actual proposals set forth by various Neoliberals.[2]

Of course, Neofeminists tend to be a bit selective about which nouns
need to be the subject of gendercide. Why haven't they changed
"hysterectomy" to "herstorectomy" and
"menstruation" to "herstoration?"

For more detailed information on the semanticide practiced by many
Neofeminists, see Chapter 129 of Volume III, "Neofeminism."

Perhaps pro-lifers should not be too hard on others for using
useless, fluffy words, because all activists sometimes fall into this
habit as well. We should learn a lesson from this: That those who are
constrained to domicile within structures of potent frangibility should
in no account employ petreous formations as projectiles.[5]

Genocidal Newspeak: Then and Now.

Verbal engineering always precedes social engineering.

Former abortionist Bernard Nathanson, M.D.

Overview.

Bureaucratic Newspeak can be either a bad habit or an
attempt to impress people. The purpose of genocidal Newspeak is far more
sinister: To disable effective opposition to mass killing.

The National Socialists and Newspeak.

The Nazis diligently exploited
genocidal Newspeak's great potential. In Germany, the organizations that
selected people for death were entitled "The Realm's Committee for
Scientific Approach to Severe Illness Due to Heredity and
Constitution" and the "Committee for Research on Hereditary
Diseases and Constitutional Susceptibility to Severe Diseases."

Thousands of children were killed by the "Reich Committee for
Children." Unfortunate Jews and gypsies were hauled to
concentration camps in filthy, unventilated boxcars by the
"Non-Profit Patient Transport Corporation," and their passage
was funded by collections from their relatives by the "Charitable
Foundation for Institutional Care."[6]

And the "Charitable Transport Company for the Sick"
conveyed "human weeds" to "processing facilities" so
that "life devoid of value" could be "released."

That sure sounds better than herding millions of Jews into cattle
cars so they could be dragged into gas chambers and slaughtered, doesn't
it?

Latter-Day Verbal Engineers.

Totalitarians (whether they be
governments in power or groups of outside agitators) have always
recognized and exploited Newspeak for all it is worth. Inevitably, as
with other sciences, the use of Newspeak has become more and more
refined and effective through the ages.

Heinrich Himmler would be proud of latter-day Newspeak engineers. In
today's world, the torture and slaughter of thousands in the slave labor
camps of the Gulag and Vietnam is called "re-education."
Terrorists are elevated to the status of "freedom fighters."
Thugs belong to units with names like "The Dignity
Battalions." The obliteration of rural villages is
"pacification." The herding of vast numbers of indigenous
tribespeople into sterile wastelands is called "frontier
adjustment."

Similar language has being used in our country for the last 25 years
to numb millions of consciences to the atrocities of mass murder in the
forms of abortion and euthanasia. In fact, the pro-abortionists are
currently trying to muddy the waters yet more by adding a fourth slogan
to the three on Big Brother's Ministry of Truth Building;

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
PRO-CHOICE IS PRO-LIFE

Medical professionals clearly recognize the key role of Newspeak in
the New Holocaust. Before the killing began in earnest, the prestigious
journal California Medicine realized that the first step in
enabling the slaughter must be the revision of language;

The reverence for each and every human life has been the
keystone of Western medicine, and is the ethic which has caused
physicians to try to preserve, protect, repair, prolong, and enhance
every human life.

Since the old ethic has not yet been fully displaced, it has
been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of
killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a
curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows,
that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra- or
extra-uterine until death. The very considerable semantic gymnastics
which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but taking a
human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under
socially impeccable auspices.

It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is
necessary because, while a new ethic is being accepted, the old one has
not yet been fully rejected.[7]

Why Do We Use (and Tolerate) Newspeak?

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12:36.

The "Little Voice."

Even Nazis and abortionists possess
consciences. These hardened mass killers harbor a troublesome little
voice which constantly reminds them that they are sinning heinously.
They are committing acts so unnatural, loathsome, and unjustifiable that
they must ruthlessly suppress the little voice that bothers them so
much. As British author Sir Arthur Helps wisely counseled, "It is
an error to suppose that no man understands his own character. Most
persons know even their failings very well, only they persist in giving
them names different from those usually assigned by the rest of the
world."[8]

This is why the Nazis employed Newspeak half a century ago, and this
is why pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia killers use it now. The deeper
the little voice is buried, the better the abortionists and the
euthanasiasts and their obedient slaves feel.

Suppressing the Truth.

Of course, deep down in their hearts, every
pro-abortionist knows the truth that he is killing babies or
supporting such killing. Nobody is stupid or blind enough to really
believe otherwise.

This is why every pure and innocent three-year old knows on sight
that an unborn baby is really a baby, and not a blob. Newspeak allows
pro-aborts to "unlearn" this common-sense knowledge and shield
their consciences.

And this is why many pro-aborts go literally insane with anger and
rage when a pro-lifer boldly speaks the truth before them. The angriest
pro-aborts are, strangely, the easiest to reach with the truth because
they are having the most trouble suppressing their "little
voice." Their consciences are pained. They don't want to face the
truth because it hurts.

Many pro-aborts have become pro-life, and they all agree that the
conversion process is painful. The identical unpleasant process occurs
when a "do-nothing" fence-sitting Christian who has
anesthetized his conscience finally takes concrete action against evil.

Conversely, the coolest and most self-controlled pro-aborts are those
who have most successfully suppressed their consciences. These are the
people who can examine any amount of medical and statistical evidence
and remain pro-abortion. Most frightening of all, these are the people
who admit to killing unborn children and have no qualms about it,
merely because it is legal.

The abortionists and their slavish followers are the true moral
descendants of the Nazi Schutzstaffel the dreaded SS killers of
World War II.

Newspeak: Engine of the Sexual Revolution.

But as the rigid [sexual conduct] code relaxed, new concepts
evolved. At the same time vocabulary was altered: Perversions became
abnormalities, abnormalities became deviancies, deviancies became
variations, variations became options, options became preferences,
preferences became choices, and choices became life-enhancing
experiences.

Lester A. Kirkendall.[9]

Newspeak is an extremely powerful weapon precisely because it is so
subtle and works to disarm the target audience without injuring its
individual members. In fact, Newspeak causes the target audience to
become implicated in the specific evil being addressed, because
the people naturally feel guilty for not taking action against it. In
other words, the audience, by its inaction, is given a vested interest
in the evil act.

Newspeak is so versatile that it has been used to justify not only
abortion, but has 'greased the skids' for the entire Sexual Revolution
and all of its entrained evils. The "old" words that baldly
stated the truth were "inhibiting progress" and were making
people feel uncomfortable, so they were discarded.

These precise terms were replaced with compassionate, nonjudgmental
'feel-good' words that allowed those who participated in intrinsically
evil acts, from abortion to pornography, to feel good about themselves
and salve their aching or benumbed consciences. Just a few examples are
shown below.

THE DEVOLUTION OF DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE INTO NEWSPEAK ORIGINAL TERM NEWSPEAK

Their throat is an empty grave; with their tongue they speak
deceit. Declare them guilty, O God!

Psalms 5:9.

Avoiding the Reality.

The so-called "women's rights"
movement is supposedly based on honesty, i.e.: "telling it like it
is."

In reality, however, the Neofeminists are the most dishonest people
in the world with others, and, more importantly, with themselves. The
following examples of pro-abortion Newspeak show just how severely the
'abortion-rights' movement is afflicted with an ingrained need to
assuage its guilt and avoid reality. These examples show the twisted
manner in which pro-abortion activists use everyday words to deceive,
sidetrack, and hoodwink the public.

Dehumanizing the Preborn.

Nowhere is Newspeak more prevalent than
when pro-abortionists are dehumanizing their innocent victims.

This type of dehumanization not only allows the abortionists and
their supporters to justify their bloody killing, it also allows them to
perpetrate every imaginable kind of atrocity on their helpless victims.

In one particularly grisly incident, a horrified nurse observed a
"doctor" ransacking the body of a living, unanesthetized,
late-term baby. She described the procedure: "They took the
fetus and cut its belly open. They said they wanted its liver. They
carried the baby out of the incubator and it was still alive. It was a
boy. It had a complete body, with hands, feet, mouth and ears. It was
even secreting urine." The "researcher," a Dr. Kekomaki,
sliced the belly of the baby open and cut out its organs without even
giving the little boy the mercy of an anesthetic. When a reporter asked
him to justify this atrocity, Kekomaki retorted that "An aborted
baby is just garbage."[10]

Other blatant examples of Newspeak applied to the preborn by the
abortionists and their supporters are shown in Figure 15-1.

FIGURE 15-1

NEWSPEAK EMPLOYED BY THE NAZI AND PRO-ABORTION MOVEMENTS NEWSPEAK APPLIED TO THE JEWS

In Canada, a man who tries in any manner
to prevent his own wife from killing his own preborn child may be
aggressively prosecuted under the Criminal Code for failing to provide
the "necessities of life" to his wife (if she is not employed
outside the home) by failing to pay for the "necessary medical
treatment" of abortion! Under the same Code, parents have been
prosecuted for "child neglect" for failing to pay for their
daughter's abortion(s), regardless of their beliefs on the subject. Any
parents who even attempt to talk their daughter out of killing her child
(their grandchild) may lose her to the voracious provincial child care
authorities.[11]

Abortion clinics even use Newspeak to name their killing centers. In
Florida, there is the Orlando Birthing Center where no births only
abortions are performed; in Oregon, there is the Lovejoy Surgicenter,
where neither love nor joy will be found; in Missouri, Parents Aid aids
people in avoiding parenthood; in Chicago, Family Guidance guides people
in preventing families; Pre-Term in Cleveland and Pre-Birth in Chicago
facilitate no births just abortions; also in Chicago, Friendship Medical
Center will take your money, but don't be foolish enough to ask them to
be your friend. Finally, TLC Women's Services in Manhattan will not show
your unborn baby much Tender Loving Care!

Betraying the strong link between abortion and infanticide, a
physician at the University of Virginia Medical School told The New
York Times Magazine that allowing babies with Down Syndrome to die
was "a woman's second chance to have an abortion." This same
doctor stated that "Prenatal death does not constitute a harm, nor
does the prenatal termination of the fetus' life through induced
abortion constitute an injury."[13]

In New York State at one time, a pregnant minor could not get
Medicaid funds in certain instances if she walked into a clinic and said
"I want an abortion," because the Medicaid program was
intended to help minors get prenatal care. However, all the teenager had
to do was tell the clinic worker that she was applying for an abortion
"on behalf of the unborn!"

The most common term used by pro-abortionists for the slaughter of
the preborn is "termination of pregnancy." If the same type of
nomenclature is used for other situations, this Newspeak is exposed as
the nonsense it truly is. For example, killing a spouse could be called
"termination of marriage;" the killing of a worker could be
labeled "termination of employment;" and a landlord who killed
a tenant could say that he had merely "terminated his lease."

The Conclusion.

Both the National Socialist (Nazi) movement and the
pro-abortion movement used nice-sounding words to salve the consciences
of their respective publics. The average German knew precisely what was
going on. And so does the average American. But the average German was
afraid to take action. And so is the average American. The public, just
as much as the killers, uses these terms to give itself an excuse not
to stop the killing. The average do-nothing "Christian" uses
these words when he talks about abortion with other average do-nothing
"Christians."

Notably, both the Nazis and the American pro-abortion movement use
inflammatory Newspeak as propaganda for the purpose of habitually
degrading and dehumanizing both their victims and their opposition.

The words employed by the Nazis and the pro-abortionists to label the
essential elements of their respective Holocausts the victims, the
killing, the killers, the killing places, and the opposition are shown
in Figure 15-2. The similarities are absolutely striking.

FIGURE 15-2
NEWSPEAK USED BY PRO-ABORTIONISTS TO DEHUMANIZE PREBORN BABIES

Up to the point at which the embryo has not developed a nervous
system, it has not developed the capacity to feel pain or feel anything,
has no degree of consciousness and no sensory awareness. I believe, in
terms of its rights or moral status, it doesn't even reach the level of
the standard laboratory mammal. It's more like a vegetative existence, a
lettuce, if you like.

'Bioethicist' Peter Singer, quoted in the Sydney Daily Telegraph,
August 25, 1986, and in "IVF Ethics or Spinach?" ALL About
Issues, November-December 1986, page 53.

The relationship between the gravid female and the feto-placental
unit can be understood best as one of host and parasite ... Pregnancy
should be seen as a biocultural event in the context of other human
illnesses.

It's difficult to pull apart a chicken when it is newly killed.
You have to cook it first, and then it comes apart very easily. It's the
same here [when doing a late-term abortion].

British abortionist describing a new late-term abortion procedure.
Quoted in HLI Reports, June 1986, and in "Just Another Piece
of Meat?" ALL About Issues, August-September 1986, pages 51
and 52.

The umbilical cord is cut on the first day, and, after the
preborn baby dies and begins to decay, the abortionist pulls it apart.

The saline termination has the effect of inducing a
miscarriage. The more lengthy the pregnancy, the more fetal material
there is to be aborted. Under the best conditions, the patient is
attended by a nurse who receives the aborted material immediately and
removes it from the patient. It is not uncommon, however, for a patient
to abort unattended by a nurse or other attendant and to do so in her
bed. The nurse usually responds promptly to a call from the patient and
removes the abortice.

Robert Bluford and Robert E. Petres. Unwanted Pregnancy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Page 94. Discussed in Samuel L.
Blumenfeld. The
Retreat From Motherhood. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House,
1975.

For the most part it [fetal remains] is thrown out like in many
doctors' offices. If you had a wart removed or whatever (chuckle) you
could make that analogy.

Pam Crosby, Clinical Coordinator at Prince George's Reproductive
Health Services, on the clinic dumping second-trimester babies in their
trash. Quoted in Debra Braun. "Bodies of Aborted Babies Thrown in
Trash at Maryland Clinic." National Right to Life News,
December 8, 1983, page 5.

The Supreme Court placed the decision to end a pregnancy, like
that to remove a wart or straighten a nose, in the hands of the patient
and her doctor.

Beryl Benderly, Thinking About Abortion. Quoted in Leslie
Bond. "Pre-Natal Program Funds Used for Abortion." National
Right to Life News, May 1, 1986, page 9.

A popular medical dictionary defines "disease" as
"literally, the lack of ease," venereal disease as "one
usually transmitted through sexual intercourse." It's obvious,
therefore, that unwanted pregnancy is the most common venereal disease
... This disease is associated with immense suffering. Seeking to be
cured of this disease, women from time have risked pain, mutilation, and
death in numbers that really stagger the imagination.

Barbara H. Roberts, M.D. "Abortion Laws Murder Women!"
Essay in a Women's National Abortion Action Coalition booklet entitled
"Abortion is a Woman's Right: March on Washington, DC and San
Francisco, November 20 [1972]."

We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous
epidemics, even though that is the exact truth.

Dr. Mary S. Calderone, former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood
and the founder of the Sex Information and Education Council of the
United States (SIECUS), quoted in Medical Morals Newsletter,
February-March 1968.

Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other
epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law
prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly-civilized
society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very
young say, those less than 14 years.

Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgson at the May 28-30, 1980 National
Abortion Federation conference in Washington, D.C. Quoted in Mary Meehan
and Elizabeth Moore. "Forced Abortion Suggested at Clinic Owner's
Conference." National Right to Life News, June 2, 1980,
pages 1 and 13.

Using Newspeak to Stereotype the Enemy.

From a social point of view, these people who want to forcibly
take away a woman's right to abortion are nothing but vicious, rabid
dogs.

Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States.[14]

Introduction.

Make no mistake; we are engaged in outright war
against the vast anti-life complex of abortionists, sex perverts,
pornographers, eugenicists, and euthanasiasts.

One of the most important tactics of warfare is to enable the public
and the troops to hate the enemy. And the easiest and most effective way
to accomplish this is to dehumanize and stereotype him. It is much
easier to hate and to fight and to kill an enemy that you
perceive as inhuman or inferior to yourself.

Stereotyping Then.

During the slavery era, White slave owners
referred to Blacks as "animals," "lustful demons,"
and "dregs of humanity," and considered them "exactly
intermediate between the superior order of beasts such as elephant, dog,
and orangutan, and European or White men."[15]

Other slave owners referred to the slave's "ignorance,"
"brutality," "obscenity," "animal
appetite," "viciousness," and "illegitimacy,"
and called them "ignorant," "perverse,"
"wicked," "the pest of the White man," and
"agents of Satan."[15]

During wars, American soldiers have referred to the enemy as "Japs,"
"greasers," "slants," "wops,"
"krauts," and "gooks."

The Nazis used both institutional and genocidal Newspeak in their
extermination programs. They referred to Jews as "human
ballast," "garbage," "human weeds," "empty
shells," and "infections." Jews and others not of Aryan
ancestry or quality "... had to be treated like tuberculosis
bacilli, with which a healthy body may become infested. This was not
cruel, if one remembers that even innocent creatures of nature, such as
hares and deer, have to be killed, so that no harm is caused by
them."[6]

Adolf Hitler, in his book Mein Kampf ("My
Struggle"), referred to Jews as "maggots in a rotting
corpse;" "a plague worse than the Black Death;"
"mankind's eternal germ of disunion;" "drones in the
human hive;" "spiders sucking blood out of the people's
pores;" "a pack of rats eating one another;" "the
eternal bloodsucker;" "the vampire of peoples;" and
"a harmful bacillus that spreads," among many other degrading
terms.

The Nazis referred to their extermination of the Jews as
"resettlement;" "evacuation;" "clearing the
area(s) of Jews;" "cleansing," "disinfection,"
"special treatment," "moving to labor in the East,"
"injecting off," "putting to sleep like animals,"
"discharging," "the clean-up of the Jewish
question," and "the final solution to the Jewish
question."[6]

Stereotyping Now.

To the dismay of thinking Americans, our society
seems to have forgotten the hard lessons dealt us by the past. As
American philosopher George Santayana so rightly states, "Those who
do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

We obviously have not learned our lessons from the past. Today, more
than ever before, there is a proliferation of instances where groups of
people stereotype others for the purposes of abusing or killing them.

Men who use women as subjects for rape, pornography and degradation
have always referred to them as "products," "b_tches,"
"sluts," and "nice little pieces of tail." Not
surprisingly, 2 Live Crew, Niggaz With Attitude (NWA), Andrew Dice Clay
("The Diceman"), and many other very popular 'performers' now
routinely refer to women in such a manner.

Euthanasiasts routinely refer to profoundly handicapped people as
"vegetables," "mere collections of organs,"
"post-human," and "technological artifices." Persons
in intensive care units (ICUs) whom physicians consider 'hopeless cases'
are called "GORKS" (God Only Really Knows) or "GOMERS"
(Get Out of My Emergency Room). When these unfortunate people die, they
have experienced not death, but a "negative patient care
outcome" or, if such deaths are caused by the actions of
physicians, "therapeutic misadventures."

As far as abortion is concerned, the Neoliberals have two enemies the
unborn child and their protectors, the pro-life activists. And so, they
dehumanize the unborn, and they attempt, with the willing complicity of
the press, to dehumanize pro-lifers as well.

Logically, the greater the threat posed by a group of people, the
more dehumanizing the terms applied to them by their exterminators. The
preborn must certainly be a threat to barren-souled women and their
sterile male 'partners,' who routinely dehumanize them with amazing
vitriol and imagination;[6]

Magda Denes, writing about work in an abortion hospital, showed how
such language can numb the soul when she remarked that "When, under
one roof, the number of dead fetuses mounts into the thousands, the
simple fact of death gradually overshadows the significance of
individual histories."[16]

Significantly, this statement is essentially identical to Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin's observation that "A single death is a
tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."[8]

Some abortionists cannot even tolerate the feel-good Newspeak terms
for abortion, so they insulate themselves with a double layer of
self-deception in the form of acronyms, referring to abortion as MR
(menstrual regulation) and VIP (voluntary interruption of pregnancy),
and the preborn baby as a POC (product of conception).

Pro-life activists are not perceived to be as great a threat as the
unborn, but are still routinely labeled;

However, most of the pro-abortion propaganda directed against
pro-lifers is much more subtle. The so-called "artist's
community" is, with few exceptions, uniformly pro-abortion and
pro-sodomite, and it uses its accumulated talents to dehumanize
pro-lifers in very crafty ways.

The following poem is one typical example. Notice the poem's emphasis
on freedom and the false assumptions and stereotypes made about
pro-lifers. Wrapped in kind and progressive words, the poem subtly
suggests that abortion is a minor matter and anyone who opposes it must
be somehow brain-damaged or under the influence of some kind of evil
spell.

AN EXAMPLE OF PRO-ABORTION STEREOTYPING

"Ella's Abortion"

when ella had her abortion she sighed in relief, handed on the cross,
thanked her god for taking that burden; she was free to weave her
individual cloth.

for several years she danced, cloud innocent of the ghost that
followed her. no need to look over a twitching shoulder or turn a hair,
in this life of smiling blindness.

but two years ago the polyester/red rose brigade showed her the error
of her ways. pictures: tiny shell feet doll ears breath as dainty and
real as any white flower. all these clouded her vision, drummed blood in
her ears

tied her brain closed with fine silk hair.

when she looks over her weighted shoulder waiting monsters loom in
whispering shadows, knives are ready for her brain.

little girls haunt in pink booties zoom across a grey horizon. red
roses use their thorns.

For more vivid examples of how pro-abortionists dehumanize and
demonize pro-life activists, see the description of the
"Choices" comic book outlined in Chapter 17,
"Pro-Abortion Propaganda Stories."

Reaching the Media.

If language is incorrect, then what is said is not meant. If
what is said is not meant, then what ought to be done remains
undone.

Confucius.[3]

The Media: Agents of Social Change.

It is interesting to note that
the language of the pro-abortion media invariably departs from soothing
Newspeak and becomes positively incandescent when it attacks pro-life
activists. In virtually every secular publication (and quite a few
religious ones, too), pro-lifers are described as "harassing,"
"intimidating," "anti-choice," "violent,"
and so on.

Why are pro-life activists subject to these lies and unfair
treatment?

Quite simply, because the press describes itself as
overwhelmingly (more than 90 percent) pro-abortion, and sees itself as a
powerful engine of social change.

This is not pro-life paranoia at work: The extensive Lichter-Rothman
study, and subsequent confirming studies by media researchers
themselves, have shown that the press is almost uniformly Neoliberal and
pro-abortion. The Lichter-Rothman study's findings are summarized below.
For more information on the pervasive media pro-abortion bias, see
Chapter 126 of Volume III.

The media knows that it is perhaps the only entity keeping the people
from rising up en masse and putting a stop to the slaughter of
the innocents. How much stronger would the pro-life movement be if Dr.
Bernard Nathanson's jarring film "Eclipse of Reason" were
shown just once on national television?

The pro-abortionists are assisted eagerly by the media as they work
ceaselessly to sanitize the filthy profession of baby-killing for public
consumption. For example, a group of individuals from the publications Life,
Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, and (no kidding), Good
Housekeeping recently circulated the following list of 'subjective'
(bad) and 'objective' (good) words that they said should be used in the
abortion debate. This list was sent to hundreds of editors all over the
country, many of whom obediently implemented the 'suggested' changes.

It is significant indeed that Adolf Hitler's Minister of Propaganda
circulated among the national media a similar list at the beginning of
the Nazi euthanasia program. The purpose of that list was also to
numb the public conscience to the killing.

It is very interesting to watch language "evolve" to meet
social requirements. Nowhere has this phenomenon been more evident than
in the field of the life issues. After all, in order to oppress and kill
people, society must change its attitude towards its intended victims.

Alan Guttmacher, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, stated in 1961 when speaking of human reproduction that
"Fertilization, then, has taken place; a baby has been
conceived."[17] Seven years later, he had taken control of the
International Planned Parenthood Federation, and had determined that the
time was right to push abortion. He said in 1968 that "My feeling
is that the fetus, particularly during its intrauterine life, is merely
a group of specialized cells that do not differ materially from other
cells."[18]

Did the learned Dr. Guttmacher stumble onto some startling new
knowledge that he did not receive in medical school? Was there some
important revolution in fetology during the seven years between 1961 and
1968?

Of course not!

All that had changed was Guttmacher's attitude towards the
preborn. The information and data were the same; the technology was the
same; only his motivations had changed.

Even the staff of that bastion of supposed dispassionate and neutral
logic, the Encyclopedia Britannica, has been mesmerized by the
new wave of euphemisms. The 1945 Edition, under the heading
"Abortion," included the following sentence; " ...
Indeed, the tendency in Continental Europe is to regard abortion as a
crime against the unborn child ... "

By 1980, this entry had been properly modernized and sanitized;
"Abortion is the expulsion of the fetus before it has reached a
stage of development sufficient to permit it to live outside the
uterus."

Note that the Encyclopedia Britannica staff, in its rush to be
inoffensive, has sacrificed accuracy for smoothness: In all countries
where it is legal, abortion is performed even after viability.

How Can We Fight Newspeak?

The first casualty of any war is truth.

Senator Hiram Johnson.

Newspeak is to communication what barnacles are to a ship's hull.
Newspeak encrusts and loads down our language and greatly decreases the
efficiency of our communication. It is also a very powerful weapon that
is used to enable the killing of human beings.

Ever since Plato remarked that confusing language is a powerful tool
for oppression, thinking people have striven to rid their language of
Newspeak. Before we can condemn the opposition, we must therefore
replace our own Newspeak and Femspeak with "Lifespeak."
We must rip aside the enervating shroud of imprecise language and
proclaim the truth so that people can see it clearly. We must tirelessly
poke at sleeping consciences and refuse to play the Newspeak
"game."

When someone refers to a person in a dehumanizing way, we should
treat it as a form of racism. We must refuse to use words like
"persistent vegetative state," and we should correct others
who do so, because it will cause them to consider the language they use.

Additionally, if people insist upon dressing up some gross sexual
perversion in the frills of pretty language, we must ask them to clarify
their terms. For example, if someone refers to a person as
"gay," we might ask them if the person being referred to has a
happy and carefree personality, or if he is a sex pervert. This will
cause some shock and hard feelings, but such is always the case when
attempting to penetrate the curtain of words with which we insulate
ourselves from reality.

We are all guilty of conning ourselves and others from time to
time by telling half-truths and using exaggeration. As Benjamin Franklin
said, "The brain is a wonderful mechanism, and its most awesome
ability is its capacity to deceive itself."

Only when people begin to speak plainly again will we be able to make
meaningful progress towards protecting the helpless.

A GUIDE TO PRO-ABORTION NEWSPEAK

All who discuss abortion rights must be held accountable for
their words. To mislead and manipulate the public is dishonest. There is
no room for dishonesty in the sensitive discussion of abortion.

'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights.[19]

The following is a tongue-in-cheek guide to about a hundred
pro-abortion definitions as they apply to everyday words. A quick glance
at any piece of pro-abortion literature will reveal that these Newspeak
phrases and words saturate every sentence. As odd as these definitions
may sound upon first reading, they accurately reflect the true meaning
behind the pro-abortion slogans and phrases we hear so much.

Abortion: a word that the members of the sympathetic, progressive,
non-judgmental community try to avoid, lest it cause trauma to those
women who have exercised their Constitutionally-mandated right to
choose. We prefer to call it post-fertility conception interruption (a
Planned Parenthood term), evacuation of the uterine contents, or
something which sounds warm and fuzzy like that.

Abortionist: a judgmental, finger-pointing term used by right-wing
fanatics to describe a woman's choice physician. This term should only
be used when describing events that occurred before 1970, and should never
be used without the prefixes "back-alley" or
"illegal," and must be used in conjunction with a
horror story about a woman dying of an unsafe, pre-legal abortion.

Agree to Disagree: we have debated this subject, and, unfortunately,
you have thrashed me in front of an audience, so I am going to
demonstrate my inherent pro-choice open-mindedness by publicly
announcing that I am not going to change my mind on anything. So there!

AIDS: one of a wholly undeserved group of sexually-transmitted
diseases (STDs) affecting primarily our noble gay brothers. An
affliction which will be eradicated any day now by an aggressive
campaign of sex education as early as possible, along with frank public
announcements and the careful use of condoms (Planned Parenthood said
so). Be careful not to mention that no society has ever
completely eradicated any STD.

Anti-Semitism: the belief that Jews are somehow subhuman and present
a threat to society (and more-developed races) because of their inferior
status. This type of discrimination is currently unfashionable. A
progressive who wants to participate in politically correct
discrimination should involve himself in Christophobia or Fundiphobia.

Baby ("B-word"): Only those post-born human beings
who are thinking, rational persons that possess a high enough degree of
quality of life (we pro-choice and pro-euthanasia activists reserve the
right to change this definition at any time in order to suit our own
purposes).

Bestiphobia: an affliction peculiar to those narrow-minded
individuals who frown upon the genuine expression of love between human
beings and other species (usually mammalian). Bestiphobes are by
definition species-istic, and are blind to how broad our union is to all
living things in the greater scheme of theagenesis and Gaia. The proper
term for sex between people and other animals is "interspecies
love."

Bigotry: any action or thought that in any way denigrates the actions
or lifestyle of sodomites, lesbians, abortionists, transvestites,
pedophiles, and other moderate members of our society. Of course,
ridicule and hate of fundamentalists, conservative Catholics, and anyone
else who opposes us is exempt from this definition (see, for example,
"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" or "The Last Temptation
of Christ"). In fact, no progressive freethinker is capable
of bigotry. We refer to our own bigots as "gentle but angry
people."

Breed: describes how ignorant anti-choice fanatics selfishly exercise
their reproductive rights by having two or even three children, in
complete disregard for our pure and natural environment. We have not
figured out how they do this, since Planned Parenthood says that they
all despise women and hate their own sexuality. In any case, we hold up
the shining example of the family planning program in the People's
Republic of China as a model for the entire world to emulate as we unite
in the struggle to follow the path charted by Chairman Mao!

Chilling Effect: what any legal action taken against us causes. The
identical legal actions taken against our opposition is referred to as
"balancing rights."

Church Community: the caring, flexible, progressive, non-judgmental,
non-sexist part of the body of Christ (i.e., us).

Clinic Escort: a sympathetic, caring person who safeguards the right
to choose abortion and insures that clients have access to informed
consent (see "Informed Consent").

Clinic Violence: describes all of the offensive, intimidating,
disgusting actions of anti-choice fanatics outside an abortion clinic.
Of course, we all know that there is no violence involved in the
decapitation, dismemberment, burning and crushing of more than a million
babies (oops, "blobs of protoplasm") inside the clinics
each year (this is called "reproductive choice").

Consensus: we have a poll performed by one of our special-interest
groups using our biased questions that shows that our members think the
way they should on this issue. Of course, it is theoretically impossible
for you conservatives to attain a consensus, because, no matter how
perverted the act you are talking about, at least one of our members
will enjoy it and object to your proposed limitations.

Conspiracy: any activity in which ignorant anti-choice fanatics
cooperate in forging a strategy to deprive desperately poor women of
their necessary, Goddess-given and Constitutional rights. This is
referred to as "networking" or "empowering" when
done by noble workers in the struggle for women's reproductive rights.

Court-Packing: when a right-wing ideological president like Ronald
Reagan or George Bush crams the Supreme Court with reactionary,
anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-affirmative action Fascists. When
progressives like Bill Clinton demand a litmus test on abortion and then
crowd the Supreme Court with jurists who reflect our own liberal views,
we refer to it as "balancing the Court." By definition, we can
never have a balanced Supreme Court unless liberals hold at least a 7-2
majority.

Crisis: any situation where the public does not agree with us that
there is a real emergency, but where we need to create hysteria in order
to paint our opposition as backwards, reactionary, and stubborn.
Examples: the "overpopulation crisis," the "teen
pregnancy crisis," and the "AIDS crisis."

Demonstration: an unruly riot by people whose philosophy you agree
with. An example would be the ACT-UP invasion and desecration of St.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. When the opposition holds a
peaceful picket, we call it "clinic violence."

Diversity: what we Neoliberals honor above all: legitimate lifestyle
expressions, including lesbianism, homosexuality, bestiality,
transsexualism, transvestitism, pedophilia, vegisexualism, and
geosexualism. Of course, any right-wing lifestyle expression such as
chastity and marital fidelity limits diversity and should
therefore be censured as a true perversion.

Don't Force Your Morality On Me: don't tell me that I'm doing
something wrong as a New Age, enlightened, progressive free thinker, I'm
not capable of wrongdoing. The concept of sin is just a feeble
attempt by right wing fanatics to lay a guilt trip on me. Meanwhile, of
course, we liberals can force our own morality off on others with
various quotas, 'sensitivity training,' and restrictions on any speech
we consider inappropriate. This is called "pluralism."

Emotional Issue: characterization of a political issue-centered
campaign favored by conservatives. The same type of campaign favored by
liberals is referred to as "a matter of principle."

Fanatic: any person who opposes us. The term we apply to a pro-choice
activist is "dedicated worker in the noble struggle for women's
rights."

Fundamentalist: a rigid, dogmatic person who mindlessly follows the
arbitrary dictates of a vengeful God; this person, who may be from any
religion, has a simplistic worldview, is always judgmental, and cannot
think for him(her)self. Anyone with 'morals' (an outdated, dogmatic
concept).

Gay: happy, well-adjusted people whose inborn sexual preference just
happens to be for people of the same sex. We never mention the practices
the gender-benders engage in, or their extraordinarily high rates of
drug and alcohol addiction, venereal diseases, mental diseases, suicide,
murder, incest, rape, and child molestation. Only gays who want to
change their lifestyle are unhappy and maladjusted.

Genocide: the targeting of any class of people for eradication. We
abhor genocide if it is practiced by the Right and we ignore it if
practiced by the Left (i.e., Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and the extremely
high rate of abortions performed on "women of color" in this
country).

God (Preferably Goddess): a benign being who doesn't interfere with
our personal decisions and who is too kind and sweet to condemn anyone
to a nonexistent place called Hell (which we all know is on earth,
anyway). The only persons who anger Her are those ignorant, judgmental,
finger-pointing lunatics who are forever trying to sabotage our noble
struggle for lesbian, gay, pedophile, and abortion rights.

Good Catholic: similar to the "I'm as good as you are"
phenomenon. Describes pick-and-choose, or "cafeteria
Catholics." Examples of "Good Catholics" are Ellie Smeal,
Mary Ann Sorrentino, Charlie Curran, and Ted Kennedy (D.-Olt).

Good Christian: anyone who can find the rights to abortion and sodomy
in the Bible.

Informed Consent: making certain that a woman makes the right
decision when faced with an unwanted pregnancy (i.e., abortion).

Intolerance: the only real sin.

Keep Your Laws Off My Body: something to chant when we can't think of
anything intelligent to say (which is often). Most effective when
shouted loudly and repeatedly, with hands over ears.

Mantra: powerful mental 'centering' tool used to defend ourselves
against unwanted psychic interference. Our collective pro-choice mantra
is "eye doanwan two he rit" (or some variation), repeated over
and over, until the user achieves the desired divine state of blissful
ignorance.

Medieval [Neanderthal, Dogmatic, etc.]: anyone who stands up for
their beliefs or their faith.

Moderate: term preferred over the word "Liberal." A
moderate supports abortion on demand, sado-masochism, transvestitism,
gay rights, animal rights, the efficient Chinese population control
program, vegetable rights, mineral rights, and anything but the rights
of the preborn and Right-wingers. We say that these people "vote
their conscience," "surprise friend and foe alike," are
"refreshingly independent," "conservative but not
ideological," or "issue-oriented." Those activists and
politicians who do not believe in the above Goddess-given rights are
referred to as "radical right-wing ideologues,"
"extreme," "divisive," or "members of a fringe
element."

Morals: a laughably outdated concept, discarded by progressive and
forward-looking freethinkers along with other such outmoded ideas as
Responsibility and Sin. If we must use the distasteful term
"morals," we define it as the body of opinions that you have
developed throughout your life experience in other words, "where
you're at."

Networking: any activity in which noble workers in the struggle for
women's rights cooperate in forging a strategy to sweep anti-choice
fanatics back into the void where they belong (this activity does not
necessarily involve an exchange of bodily fluids).
"Conspiracy" when committed by anti-choice fanatics.

Non-Judgmental: where we make our naivete and inexperience into a
virtue as we cripple the most effective methods of combatting health
crises by assuring those who are affected that it really isn't their
fault, that they can do absolutely nothing about their situation, and
that society is committing genocide against their certified 'victim
group' by not immediately giving in to their every demand.

NORPLANT: a miracle contraceptive that pulled the United States out
of the Dark Ages of birth control. Will be effectively used to sterilize
poor women (whether they want it or not), in order to relieve us of the
trouble of caring for all of their squalling brats.

Overpopulation: a proliferation of other races, particularly in Third
World nations like China and Ethiopia. The term we use when describing
an increase in the number of white, middle-class Americans is "baby
boom."

Peace, Justice and Freedom: fuzzy and indefinable terms used to
describe the goals of the struggle against U.S. imperialist aggression,
which is causing holocausts all over the world. Allows us to ignore the
many holocausts taking place in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and other
countries, including the holocaust taking place right here in the good
old U.S. of A. These words are the left-wing equivalent of the
anti-choice "Seamless Garment." FORWARD ALONG THE PATH CHARTED
BY CHAIRMAN MAO!

Pedophilia: judgmental term that will soon be eliminated along the
way on our march to sexual equality for all regardless of gender or age.
The proper term is "intergenerational love."

Personally Opposed, But ...: a handy verbal safety net for
politicians with the courage and natural coloring of a canary. Allows
them to assume (however distasteful it may be) the unfairly respectable
appearance of an anti-choicer while actually supporting full
reproductive rights for women everywhere.

Picketing: activity where ignorant anti-choice fanatics block clinic
doors, rush and charge at clinic clients, while screaming, shouting,
chanting, drooling and yelling, waving disgusting, slanderous and
libelous literature at them, and causing all kinds of complicated and
dangerous medical reactions, including making clinic staff lose weight
(this term is interchangeable with "terrorism" or
"harassment").

Pigs and Rent-a-Pigs: police and security guards, respectively
(unless they're arresting anti-choice fanatics, in which case we refer
to them as "Officer" or "Sir").

Planned Parenthood: the unquestioned source of all wisdom. The
legislated teacher of our children, in light of the recognized fact that
parents are incompetent, bumbling idiots. A saintly, truthful
organization which has undergone severe persecution and trials at the
hands of anti-choice fanatics as it struggles to shine the light of its
truth all over the world (incidentally, Planned Parenthood does not
do abortions).

Pluralism: we Neoliberals in the act of airing our viewpoints, no
matter how bizarre, in public. Of course, any conservative doing the
same thing is undermining pluralism and attempting to destroy the
essential wall of separation between church and state.

Pointing Fingers: you're embarrassing me or a progressive,
nonjudgmental, forward-looking group of caring, sympathetic persons by
suggesting that what I or they might be doing is anything but what is
just right for everyone involved. Alternatively: "You're being
judgmental!"

Poor Women: our valiant sisters (usually 'women of color'),
downtrodden by the fanatic Religious Right, whom we don't really help,
need or talk about until we must have a tearjerker story of how they
might butcher themselves if the public doesn't pay for their abortions (er,
pardon me, "evacuations of uterine contents"). Also see
"Silent No More."

Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS): a fiction invented by ignorant
terrorists just to make you feel guilty. After all, we all know (don't
we)? that there are never any bad effects caused by abortion.

Potential Life: anything I bloody well want it to be. Watch out,
because you may very well become 'potential life' someday!

Products of Conception (blob of tissue, potential life, parasite,
uterine contents): You know what we're talking about. Just don't,
whatever you do, say the "B" word; it might trigger
unacceptable levels of psychological resonance and palpitations in the
women we're working so hard to help.

Pro-Life: only those persons who are all of the
following: pro-choice, pro-peace, freedom, and justice, pro-animal
rights, pro-gay rights, pro-old-growth timber, etc. etc. ad nauseam.
Of course, nobody who is "single-issue" qualifies (see
"Single-Issue"). And, of course, nobody who is anti-abortion
can ever qualify as 'pro-life,' no matter how 'correct' his or
her stand is on all the other issues.

Pro-Lifer: When one anti-choicer is to be described, call him a
"dangerous fanatic." Two anti-choicers create a
"conspiracy." Three anti-choicers are a "well-financed
Right-wing group." Ten thousand anti-choicers are "a small and
vocal minority." When confronted with more than 100,000 anti-choicers,
use the media to create a controversy about the actual count.

Radical Feminist: that peculiar creature who can justify upgrading
the economic and social status of women at the expense of the lives of
at least 10,000,000 other women (contrast with "original
feminist," who cares about everyone, no matter how small or
helpless). Also, RFs loudly condemn the militaristic, nationalistic,
monolithic U.S. government while depending upon that same government's
court system to jam their social agendas down the throats of an
unwilling public.

Reproductive Freedom: the ability to have as few children as you want
while aborting (oops, terminating) as many as you please. The
opposite term is "breeding," and is opposed by all
Left-thinking people.

Rescue Missions: terroristic tactic being used more and more by the
most radical fringe of the anti-choice movement. These hypocrites
surround women's choice clinics and claim to be "putting themselves
between the innocent victim and the abortionist's scalpel." Sit-ins
by anti-nuclear protestors, animal rights activists, or Earth First!
sympathizers are, of course, perfectly legitimate methods of expressing
anger against the rape of our natural resources and against the genocide
routinely practiced by the pig-infested, incurably corrupt
military-industrial octopus.

Sado-Masochism: when two or more people do to each other what they
wish they could be doing to intolerant Right-wing fanatics. The proper
term is "consensual exchange of power."

Safe(r) Sex: the salvation of the '90s. Just use your condoms,
everyone, and soon everything will be all right.

Seamless Garment: an article of clothing, woven of infinitely
stretchable and expandable fabric, that allows us to cover and conceal
ourselves in a veneer of respectability, no matter what we are doing.

Silent No More: a popular periodic contest to see which dedicated
pro-choice activist can write the most imaginative letter whose purpose
is to demonstrate that abortion must remain a right enshrined above all
others. This letter must involve a detailed story about the agonizing
death by illegal abortion of your beloved mother, sister, daughter,
aunt, niece, or dear friend. We give extra points for emotional appeal.
Naturally, you must use pseudonyms and omit unnecessary details in order
to insure that some ignorant anti-choice fanatic does not attempt to
desecrate the memory of your beloved mother, sister, aunt, niece, or
dear friend. For further information, call Frank Mendiola in Los
Angeles.

Simplistic: my way of muddying the waters by insisting that there is
a great big moral and ethical 'grey zone' out there in which I can
commit literally any perverted act while attempting to escape all
responsibility for my actions, while simultaneously denigrating your
argument, which I really can't find a logical answer for, and is the real
reason I am using this term. Alternatively: "This is not a black
and white issue."

Sin: you're joking, of course. However, if you are going to
dogmatically insist upon a one-word definition of sin, it is: INTOLERANCE!
(also, see "Seven Deadly Sins").

Single-Issue: handy smoke-screen adjective applied to narrow-minded
anti-choice fanatics. This is a term that is never used to
describe pro-choice, anti-apartheid, anti-capital punishment,
anti-vivisection, anti-logging, anti-war, or any other type of liberal
activist, even if they are deeply involved in only one issue. We
are trying, by the use of this term, to entangle anti-choice activists
in the so-called "Seamless Garment," thereby diluting their
efforts on many different causes and rendering their movement
ineffective.

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: a group of San Francisco based
homosexuals who 'dress up' as Catholic nuns and hold mock 'masses' in
public. During these 'masses,' the 'celebrant' distributes condoms in
place of the Holy Eucharist, referring to them as "Our Holy
Savior." We can get away with this kind of ridicule because
Catholics and others don't have the courage to speak out against Sister
Mad Power-Hungry B_tch and Sister Missionary Position and the Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence for fear of being labeled "intolerant
bigots." In this way, we can ridicule the Catholic church in public
and help keep this potentially great force paralyzed with fear that it
might be perceived as intolerant or might lose its tax-exempt status.

Slander, Libel, Defamation: I don't like what you're saying, but
don't know enough about the subject to substantiate my objections.

Slogan: Loud, robotic repetition of simple words used when pro-choice
activists can't think of anything meaningful to say. Useful when
anti-choice fanatics are confusing our minds with truth or facts.
Examples: "Keep your laws off my body!" and "Not the
church, not the state...!"

Small But Vocal Minority: anyone who is not pro-choice.
Alternatively: more than 100,000 anti-choicers marching on Washington.

Special-Interest Group: any lavishly-funded, reactionary anti-choice
group. By the way, we refer to our organizations as
"public-interest groups."

Stereotype: an accurate depiction of a certified victim group. Of
course, it is not possible to stereotype ignorant, bigoted, right-wing,
Bible-thumping, misogynist, close-minded anti-choice fanatics.

Struggle: the essential verb used in any type of headline pertaining
to progressive issues (special favorite of our sisters in the American
Revolutionary Communist Party). We don't use verbs like 'fight' or
'battle,' leaving those to our violent, ignorant fanatical opponents.

Subject is Closed, the: I can't reply to that statement of fact
(i.e., you have won this argument). Also: "That's just your
opinion," or "I don't want to hear any more" (repeated
loudly with hands over ears).

Ten Commandments: this is a misleading and judgmental name; these are
actually suggestions given to us long ago; ideals to strive for if we
feel called to do so. As a practical matter, we cannot expect modern men
and women to adhere to these guidelines in this complex technological
world. Instead, we try valiantly to follow Ted Turner's "Ten
Suggestions."

Unwanted Child: any fetus that will interfere in any way, shape, or
form with a woman's self-actualization, self-esteem, self-realization,
self-aggrandizement, self-orientation, self-development,
self-gratification, or self-destruction.

Voting Their Conscience: term applied to any pro-choice legislator
who votes in favor of choice and against any anti-choice legislation.
When an anti-choice legislator votes in accord with his beliefs, we
refer to it as "foisting his morality off on an unwilling
public," and "a gross violation of the separation of Church
and State."

We Agree in Principle: you have a good point there, and I can't
answer it. So I am going to muddy the waters for everyone who is
watching because I have made up my mind not to change my opinion and
nothing will make me change my beliefs.

We Are, Above All, Sexual Beings: we can engage in any kind of sex we
want to, when we want to, with whom (or what) ever we want to (after
all, Planned Parenthood said so). This is also why we need school-based
sex clinics. After all, teenagers are nothing but uncontrollable animals
whose sex drive must be allowed to run unfettered (Faye Wattleton said
so).

Well-Financed Right-Wing Fanatic Groups: anyone who attempts to
interfere with our Constitutional rights to do anything we bloody well
please (excuse me, you're blocking the driveway; I have to park my
Porsche).

Women's Choice Clinic: a place where sympathetic, non-judgmental men
and womyn [sic] (wimmen [sic], wymyn [sic]) will help you get rid of
that nasty blob of tissue (it will only take a minute, honey, and you
won't feel a thing), despite the disgustingly offensive actions of those
religious fanatic terrorists outside (oh, by the way, honey, we don't
take checks).

You Aren't Hearing Me: you don't agree with me.

References: Newspeak.

It is painful to me now to reflect the ease with which I got
into the way of using this non-language; these drooling non-sentences
conveying non-thoughts, propounding non-fears and offering non-hopes
...

[6] James Tunstead Burtchaell. "The Holocaust and
Abortion." Supplement to the newsletter of the Catholic League for
Religious and Civil Rights, Volume 9, Number 11. Also see Rebecca
Chalker and Carol Downer. A Woman's Book of Choices: Abortion,
Menstrual Extraction, RU-486. Four Walls Eight Windows Press, Post
Office 548, Village Station, New York, New York 10014. 1992, 271 pages.

[9] Lester A. Kirkendall and Michael E. Perry. "The Transition
from Sex to Sensuality and Intimacy," in Lester A. Kirkendall and
Arthur E. Gravatt (editors), Marriage and Family in the Year 2020.
New York: Prometheus Books, 1984. Page 161.

[12] All abortion clinic names were extracted from the appropriate
city's Yellow Pages under the headings "Abortion," "Birth
Control," and "Clinics."

[13] Quoted in International Life Times, November 7, 1980,
page 9.

[14] A.S.K. "Life Cannot, and Should Not, Always Be
Preserved!" Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the
Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), December 9,
1990, pages 8 to 11.

[15] Simon Clough. A Candid Appeal to the Citizens of the United
States, Proving that the Doctrines Advanced and the Measures Pursued by
the Abolitionists Relative to the Subject of Emancipation, are
Inconsistent with the Teachings and Directions of the Bible and that
those Clergymen Engaged in the Dissemination of these Principles Should
be Immediately Dismissed by their Respective Congregations as False
Teachers. New York, 1834. Also see Richard H. Colfax. Evidence
Against the Views of the Abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral
Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes. New York, 1833.
Also see W.P.N. Fitzgerald. A Scriptural View of Slavery and
Abolition. New Haven, 1839. Also see R. Yearson. The Amenability
of Northern Incendiaries ... Charleston, 1835, page 5.

[16] Magda Denes. "Performing Abortions." Commentary,
October 1976, pages 33 to 37. A truly frightening and profoundly
sickening article by a 'doctor' who observes and describes in graphic
detail a number of saline abortions and their results. She acknowledges
that abortion is killing, but a type of "necessary" killing.

[20] Malcolm Muggeridge, writing about his days as a Manchester
Guardian journalist in his work Chronicles of Wasted Time,
Volume 1. London, Collins. 1972, page 171.

Further Reading: Newspeak.

Jean Staker Garton. Language of Illusion. Life Cycle Books,
1984. Garton goes into great detail describing the various types of
Newspeak employed by the anti-life movements for the purpose of
dehumanizing those that they would like to eliminate.

Jean Staker Garton, Ph.D. Who Broke the Baby? Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Bethany Fellowship, Inc. 108 pages. Reviewed by Norman B.
Bendroth on page 18 of the May 19, 1980 issue of National Right to
Life News. This book describes the use of euphemisms and slogans to
lull the public into knee-jerk pro-abortion responses.

National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Legal Abortion: A
Speaker's and Debater's Notebook. 71 pages, June 1978. Superb
insight into the anti-life philosophy and how it shrinks from reality by
using propaganda, Newspeak, and profuse slogans.